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Show GROWERS URGED 10 PLAN! BEETS Appeal Made ly State Leaders A r newrd appeal to all farm-fi farm-fi -i in beet growing counties of Ut;ih to plant sue,;ir beets "to the limit (,f available land in 1945," was made Friday by Joseph Skeen, member of the Utah State AAA committee. Letters urging a 'J2 per cent increase in sugar beet acreage to meet present critical needs axe being mailed to all farmers In counties where sugar beets are grown, regardless of previows experience. ex-perience. The communication notes that Utah's share of the national n. I to believe ample, labor will be (available to handle and harvest all beets that can be planted this jspring. The special responsibility i for labor has been given by War J Food Administration to the Ex. I tension Service. County Extension Agents and well functioning county labor associations as-sociations will co-operate with growers to supply labor needs, j Farmers have been assured more prisoners of war and more Mexican Mexi-can nationals than were available in 1944. Sugar beets will have high priority for this labor. Labor camps will be established under the direction of War Food Administration. creased beet goal is 45,000 aces, compared with 34,000 acres harvested har-vested in 1944. It further points out that Utah farmers are peculiarly peculi-arly qualified by experience to do their share to meet this need. 'Thousands of farmers," said the hitter, "who have not grown heets recently or have grown therm on a reduced scale, undoubtedly un-doubtedly have the land, the experience ex-perience and the equipment for going back into the beet business busi-ness in a s substantial way in 1945. From present indications, there will be more than enough factory processing capacity to handle all beets that will be offered of-fered by growers. "Under terms of a contract signed by the sugar companies with Commodity Credit Corporation, Corpora-tion, beet growers will again be guaranteed this year- the highest prices for sugar beets in the nation's na-tion's history. ''One factor which might limit the number of acres is labor. While this problem is not specifically speci-fically the responsibility of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency, we are in close touch with the situation and have every reason |
